Kanji1 / 15
縁 kanji
affinity, relation, connection, edge, border, verge, brink
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
エン-ネン
Kun readings
ふちふちどるゆかりよすがへりえにし
Variant forms
緣Words with 縁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —近縁close relation (association)
- —再縁second marriage
- —周縁fringe; rim; periphery; borders; outskirts
- —重縁double marriage (in the same family); intermarriage
- —宿縁destiny; fate; karma
- —俗縁worldly connection
- —内縁de facto marriage; common-law marriage
- —不縁divorce; unrealized marriage prospects
- —仏縁Buddha's providence
- —由縁acquaintance; relation; affinity; reason
- —縁組forming a familial relationship (through adoption, marriage, etc.); adoption
- —離縁divorce; dissolution of adoption
- —縁辺edge; relative; relations; border
- —類縁affinity; family relationship
- —逆縁bad deed which ultimately results in the creation of a good Buddhist; older person conducting a funeral service for a younger relative, in particular, a parent for a child
- —竹縁veranda with bamboo flooring
- —縁座(system of) extending complicity for a crime to the criminal's family members
- —縁戚relative
- —広縁broad veranda; spacious veranda; eaves
- —地縁territorial relationship; regional bond